Compliance

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Speaking at the AICPA National Conference on Employee Benefits In Washington DC, David Walker, Comptroller General at the US General Accounting Office, discussed...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed the Communications Workers of America and two of its officials from a lawsuit brought by nine former Verizon...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's pension insurer lost nearly $2 billion last year - but still has a hefty cushion to work with.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California jury has awarded $30 million to six female supermarket workers who claim they were sexually harassed with charges that a male...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of Gillette Corp. are now free to sell the company shares in their retirement plans.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dreadlocked United Parcel Service driver who refused company requests to wear a cap while at work was fired because he had refused...

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can require employees to take job-related disputes to arbitration rather than to court, according to the Supreme Court.

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled in favor of ERISA's preemption over state law.

February 21, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A divided (5-4) Supreme Court ruled that states cannot be sued by individuals seeking money damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act of...

January 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor has offered plan sponsors additional guidance in deciding which plan expenses can be paid from plan assets - and...

January 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CALPERS), has been sued by the California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) for an injunction against a...

January 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beginning April 16, mutual funds will be required to disclose standardized after-tax returns and pretax performance, according to a new rule of the...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An office worker who ended customer communications with the words "have a blessed day" was not entitled to a preliminary injunction against her...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? With decimalization tightening trading spreads, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to extend ?safe harbor? protections for soft dollar trades to...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to require corporations to show the number of outstanding stock options, warrants and rights, and the...

November 20, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the US Departments of Justice and Labor issued a joint statement reaffirming the federal government's commitment...

November 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb has been smacked with a class action RICO suit for allegedly inflating the prices of its cancer drugs, according to...

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees in private-sector defined benefit pension plans terminating in 2003 will get a $3,664.77 monthly maximum - a 2.38% hike from plans terminating...

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has reinstated an age discrimination suit by a health care audit consultant, ruling that potentially discriminatory remarks by a...

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government is making a list - and checking it twice - and then some - to make sure that plan sponsors...